Valencia has once again been Huesca's ‘executioner’, as happened two years ago when the Levantines sent the Alto-Aragonese team to the Second Division.
This Saturday it has happened again after spending a season in the First Division without the fans being able to be present cheering for a single game at El Alcoraz.
Huesca has been in the relegation zone in twenty-four days, plus this Saturday, of the 38 that make up the championship and half of them in last place.
The Huesca team has fought to the end to achieve the goal of salvation, a permanence that depended solely on him if he managed to win at Valencia, a triumph that he finally could not achieve and that, together with the victory of Elche, sends him to the category lower.
The Alto Aragonese team began the season with Miguel Ángel Sánchez, Míchel, as coach, who achieved promotion to First Division in the previous season but on January 11, on matchday 18, he was dismissed by the Huesca club after losing at El Alcoraz to the Betis in order to look for a reaction in the team that was in the relegation zone.
Míchel was recognized for his work and his football commitment. Nobody doubted that the team played well, with a colorful and cheerful football and that it deserved more points in the classification but the victories did not come, although there were many draws, and also against important teams in the category such as Villareal and Atlético de Madrid .
The new coach, José Rojo Martín, Pacheta, arrived at the Huesca club with overwhelming optimism, which he has maintained until the last minute, and with changes from the beginning both in the game system and in players who went from being fixed starters with Míchel to be missing.
Pacheta has only had a single signing in the winter market as a reinforcement, the Slovakian player Denis Vavro, on loan from Lazio.
Pacheta bet since his arrival to reinforce the defensive line playing with five players, which gave greater strength to that plot although he did not concede many goals.
Likewise, he removed from the starting eleven several players who had been fixed with the previous coach (Borja García, Okazaki, Ontiveros) and also forgot about Juan Carlos, who from counting little happened to not having any minute, and the creation line lost prominence in the center of the field in favor of defensive solidity.
The coach from Burgos has practically had the headlines and little else and the usual ones in the changes.
The recovery of striker Sandro Ramírez after suffering several injuries, which allowed him to score decisive goals in several games in the last quarter of the season, and the scoring side of Rafa Mir, also in the final stretch of the League, have been decisive to arrive alive in the end, but he was unlucky in the last game, with two balls crashed into the post, and it could not be, with only one goal remaining to achieve permanence.